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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 1d

See you tomorrow?

ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Robert Samuels: Blindspotting

Co-presented with Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival (October 9-25). For its special Litquake installment, ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras offers a critically acclaimed 2018…

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 5d

Join us next week for our special @litquake.org installment of Movie Night at Roxie Theater with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social + @newsbysamuels.bsky.social

Tickets: tinyurl.com/mry3xe93

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 7d

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 9d

Here’s the start of a longer poem of mine in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, a journal I love — very grateful to poetry editor @andrewdavidking.bsky.social and editor @ovillalon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.zyzzyva.org/2025/09/10/i...

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Litquake @litquake.org · 13d

A big thank you to everyone who came out for the book fair and our 5th annual (‼️) Litquake Out Loud! 🎉 The celebration continues—join us for Out Loud’s 5th anniversary at the Makeout Room on 10/19. Tickets + info pinned on our profile!

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 19d

Our Fall Issue is here! Explore new stories, essays, poems, conversation, and art from a dazzling breadth of interests and styles.

Read Issue 130 (or subscribe) at zyzzyva.org

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 21d

🥳 TONIGHT 9/22 at 7pm PT, @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social is holding their Issue 130 Celebration at City Lights!

Emceed by @ovillalon.bsky.social with a reading by @keenanthewriter.bsky.social

Attend in person for pizza and wine, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 23d

Join us Monday to celebrate our new Issue 130! We’ll be @citylightsbooks.bsky.social with pizza, wine, and a reading from Issue 130 contributor @keenanthewriter.bsky.social

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Sep 11

Our new Issue No. 130 is almost here… and you can pre-order your copy!

ZYZZYVA No. 130 Fall 2025 – ZYZZYVA

ISSUE 130 200 pages In This Issue “The Farm” by Pepe Hernandez: As long as there was La Revolución, there would be rations for the weak as well as the strong, and as long as there were rations for th...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy publication day to Thea Matthews for GRIME: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 25!

From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist lens with a rare deftness of poetic form.
bit.ly/3IeylKU

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Sep 9

Congratulations to Two Lines authors & translators Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney, Mohamed Kheir, and Robin Moger 🎉

Sleep Phase and The Queen of Swords are both longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · Sep 8

Today until 9/21, all NEW Two Lines Press members will receive the new CAT @catranslation.org tote bag! A membership gets you early access (w/ free U.S. shipping included) for all our books (8-10/year), plus exclusive member gifts. Join us! www.catranslation.org/books-member...

The Center for Translation (CAT) tote bag pictured with four upcoming Two Lines Press titles. Miao!

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Sep 7

“Nothing would probably ever have happened without this jewel…”

Thanks to all who came to our Movie Matinee yesterday! And to @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social for a great conversation on identity, glamour, and Queen of the Night. See you at the next one! @litquake.org

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Sep 5

See you tomorrow?

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie!

This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Sep 3

ZYZZYVA Movie Night coming Saturday! Get your ticket: tinyurl.com/ys5jvcp2

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hi friends, very excited to go to the West Coast and talk about “The Earrings of Madame de…” by Max Ophuls. I’ll be showing the film and in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, a fundraiser for the literary magazine @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 27

I will be wearing opera gloves and probably t-shirt and jeans 💅🏽

🎟️🎟️🎟️:
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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Aug 28

Next week! ZYZZYVA Movie Night at Roxie Theater with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social + @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @litquake.org

Tickets: tinyurl.com/ys5jvcp2

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Aug 23

Coming up soon! ZYZZYVA Movie Night at Roxie Theater with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social + @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @litquake.org (and you can grab a copy of ZYZZYVA with your ticket!)

ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: The Earrings of Madame de … (35mm)

Doors open at noon with a book signing. Movie introduction starts promptly at 12:30 p.m., followed by a conversation at the end of the screening. Books! Banter! Cinema! Welcome to the year’s first…

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Aug 20

“Or maybe she was still asleep asleep. Maybe everything she saw now was only a reflection of a reflection of reality, like that moonlight in the water.”

New fiction from @gregoryspatz.bsky.social in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Aug 12

“They come, they go—presence their only language.”

New poetry from Kelly Cressio-Moeller in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Jul 25

ZYZZYVA Move Night at Roxie Theater is back in September!

Litquake @litquake.org · Jul 24

✨First up in our Amuse-Bouche series: ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee!

Join us at The Roxie for The Earrings of Madame de... (1953), selected by @alexanderchee.bsky.social and in conversation w/ author @ingridrojasc.bsky.social & @ovillalon.bsky.social

🎟️Tickets: bit.ly/451A3H0

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Jul 14

“Can you love, if love is not returned? Not returned equally? The most profound of questions because it is a question about how to love one’s life.”

New fiction from Joyce Carol Oates in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Jul 11

This week our Editor @ovillalon.bsky.social was on Bibliocracy Radio with Andrew Tonkovich. Give it a listen!

Oscar Villalon on ZYZZYVA’s Fortieth — Bibliocracy Radio

www.bibliocracyradio.org

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Jul 9

In May we celebrated our 40th anniversary on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social

Listen to the podcast to hear from our editor @ovillalon.bsky.social + writers @ingridrojasc.bsky.social and Daniel Handler on all things ZYZZYVA and West Coast lit!

Forum from the Archives: Celebrating 40 Years of West Coast Literature with Zyzzyva

Podcast Episode · KQED's Forum · 07/08/2025 · 58m

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Jul 6

It’s the last day of our July 4th Sale! 3-issue subscription discount with code SAVE5 at: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...

ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Jul 3

Looking for weekend reading? Our July 4th sale starts today! Get or gift a discounted 3-issue subscription. Use code SAVE5 at: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Jul 3

Looking for weekend reading? Our July 4th sale starts today! Get or gift a discounted 3-issue subscription. Use code SAVE5 at: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...

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